This book discusses the significant contribution animals have been making in every stage of human life. Although history primarily focuses on narratives about potentates, explorers and their missions, inventors and their creations, and formations and transformations of societies, animals too have played their part in the making of the world in many significant ways. In the past, different aspects of animal aid in human beings' survival, development and even advancement in different sectors...

This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to how transport systems shape daily life and connect people, places, and economies. It explains that transport is more than vehicles and roads; it represents movement, progress, and human innovation. Designed for general readers, including students and young audiences, the book uses simple language to explain key concepts such as speed, engines, infrastructure, and safety. It traces the development of transport from basic forms like w...

This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to communication, explaining how it functions as a fundamental process that connects people, ideas, and technology. It begins with basic human interaction, including speaking, listening, and body language, and gradually expands to traditional forms such as letters, newspapers, radio, and television. The book then explores modern communication tools, including smartphones, messaging platforms, email, and social media, explaining thei...

This book makes gardening lovely and simple. In today's hectic and cacophonic life, all long for nature. This book tells you that even a little space like a balcony and a tiny corner at home can thrive gracefully to be a beautiful garden. It deals with easy steps, squarely including plant selection, soil preparation, watering system set-up, and plant care. With relative ease vegetables, fruits, herbs, and flowers may grow. The book opens up talks on eco-friendly practices like composting, ...

The book helps for providing easy and clear guidance to lead daily life. In fact, people suffer from a kind of unrest because they may not be physically weak but unfortunately with much confusion due to the lack of such simple directions. Different concepts in this book give some deeper insights on emotions, choices, relationships related lessons for personal development for readers. The themes of quitting after losing hope, the miracle of time, forgiving with discretion, and learning from...

This book shows the world of spice in a simple, practical, and charming way, elucidating how it excites the taste and smell of food, besides fortifying its nutritional value. Food comforts, delights and binds us together. Spices are like the soul of these experiences. So many of us take them for granted on a daily basis, barely understanding their purpose and benefits. Let us bridge that gap with this book. Each spice is described in simple language—also suitable for beginners, kids, or la...

Exploring the life cycle of a plant in this book is straightforward and lucid, employing the process of a seed's growth as the point of departure and a more meaningful plot. It points out how a small seed holds within its shell the key to the idea of development, conserving energy in the process of germination and the growing ambiance of the formation of a seedling, a plant, and a full-grown tree that bears fruits – seeds. Such a detailed description of the development leaves no one indiff...

The Bhagavad Gita explains to modern people the maintenance of a good and a healthy society by means of such concepts as Dharma, Karma, and spirituality. It teaches that everyone must perform his/her duties selflessly and without attachment to the fruits of their work. Thus everyone should seek to perform their 'Nishkama karma and that is the crux of the Gita. At the heart of this is the knowledge of the Atman, or the eternal self, which is absolutely devoid of the ignorance of Maya. By th...

The book gives a comprehensive vision of communication as a universal process, which entails animals and some birds rather than only human language. It attests that communication is more than speech; rather, sounds, gestures, movements, colors, and silence are meaningful in the natural environment. Written in simple and plain language, the book is instructive about how species would employ signals in order to, for example, navigate safely, find food, alert danger, or even further social en...

“A necessary book for anyone truly interested in what we take from the sea to eat, and how, and why.” —Sam Sifton, The New York Times Book ReviewAcclaimed author of American Catch and The Omega Princple and life-long fisherman, Paul Greenberg takes us on a journey, examining the four fish that dominate our menus: salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna.Investigating the forces that get fish to our dinner tables, Greenberg...

An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where w...

In this New York Times bestseller, Brian Fagan shows how climate transformed-and sometimes destroyed--human societies during the earth's last global warming phase.From the 10th to 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide-a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including much of Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful crops and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In ...